Zusatztext Intimate Violence is an admirably generous and enthusiastic contribution to Hitchcock studies! a book that deserves recognition and elaboration. Informationen zum Autor David Greven is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He publishes in two fields, nineteenth century American literature and Film Studies. Greven specializes in psychoanalytic theory, queer theory, and gender studies. He has written studies of same-sex desire in the antebellum United States, Nathaniel Hawthorne's work and Freudian literary theory, the woman's film, masculinity in contemporary Hollywood, and Hitchcock's influence on the filmmakersof the Seventies. Klappentext Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. These conflicts eerily echo the tense standoff between feminism and queer theory. From a reparative psychoanalytic perspective, David Greven merges queer and feminist approaches to Hitchcock. Zusammenfassung Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. These conflicts eerily echo the tense standoff between feminism and queer theory. From a reparative psychoanalytic perspective, David Greven merges queer and feminist approaches to Hitchcock.

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David Greven is Professor of English at the University of South Carolina. He publishes in two fields, nineteenth century American literature and Film Studies. Greven specializes in psychoanalytic theory, queer theory, and gender studies. He has written studies of same-sex desire in the antebellum United States, Nathaniel Hawthorne's work and Freudian literary theory, the woman's film, masculinity in contemporary Hollywood, and Hitchcock's influence on the filmmakers of the Seventies.

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Intimate Violence explores the consistent cold war in Hitchcock's films between his heterosexual heroines and his queer characters, usually though not always male. These conflicts eerily echo the tense standoff between feminism and queer theory. From a reparative psychoanalytic perspective, David Greven merges queer and feminist approaches to Hitchcock.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Intimate Violence
Chapter 1: Queer Hitchcock: Psycho and Northwest by Northwest
Chapter 2: "You're A Strange Girl, Charlie": Sexual Hegemony in Shadow of a Doubt
Chapter 3: Mirrors without Images: Spellbound
Chapter 4: Making a Meal of Manhood: Rope, Orality, and Queer Anguish
Chapter 5: The Fairgrounds of Desire: Paranoia and Masochism in Strangers on a Train
Chapter 6: The Death-Mother in Psycho: Hitchcock, Femininity, and Queer Desire
Chapter 7: Marnie's Queer Resilience
Epilogue: Melanie's Birds: Deconstructing the Heroine
Notes